Anybody ever have vertigo?

[Surfah]

I woke up this morning for work with the room spinning around me. I was nauseous to the point I thought I was going to pass out. Similar to the feeling I get when reading in a moving car but 10x worse. Somehow I managed to get dressed, brushed my teeth and made it down stairs. I thought maybe I just sat up too quickly in bed. But then I started vomiting. I have thrown up about 6 times today. I have nothing left in me. I retired to the guest room in the basement where it was cool and dark. I am still very nauseous. The room feels like it's spinning clockwise around me. I have never felt like this before ever. Gidget thinks it may be a migraine or the onset of one. I have never had one so I don't know. I don't have a headache, just some pressure around my head particularly in the back by my brain stem. I have an appointment in an hour with the doctor. This sucks. I just don't want to move for fear of vomiting again.

[dabrockster]

I woke up this morning for work with the room spinning around me. I was nauseous to the point I thought I was going to pass out. Similar to the feeling I get when reading in a moving car but 10x worse. Somehow I managed to get dressed, brushed my teeth and made it down stairs. I thought maybe I just sat up too quickly in bed. But then I started vomiting. I have thrown up about 6 times today. I have nothing left in me. I retired to the guest room in the basement where it was cool and dark. I am still very nauseous. The room feels like it's spinning clockwise around me. I have never felt like this before ever. Gidget thinks it may be a migraine or the onset of one. I have never had one so I don't know. I don't have a headache, just some pressure around my head particularly in the back by my brain stem. I have an appointment in an hour with the doctor. This sucks. I just don't want to move for fear of vomiting again.

Dang. Get better. That has to suck.. I hope the Dr. can help resolve this issue..

[ERCougar]

I only have a second to answer this, but it'd be worth a quick trip to the grocery store to get some meclizine (available OTC).

[Donuthole]

My advice: type on the keyboard in the middle. So far you seem to have it figured out.

[beelzebabette]

Meniere's. And, yes, vertigo sucks. Hope you feel better soon.

[clackamascoug]

That sounds kind of serious.

(Try spinning in the opposite direction and see if you can come to a equilibrium. )

[cougjunkie]

Meniere's. And, yes, vertigo sucks. Hope you feel better soon.

Menieres is what my mom has. Sounds awful.

[ERCougar]

That sounds kind of serious.

(Try spinning in the opposite direction and see if you can come to a equilibrium. )

OK...I'm back for a second.

Actually, acute onset, severe vertigo is rarely anything serious; the insidious onset, mild vertigo is the more concerning type. It's most likely vestibular neuronitis/labyrinthitis or BPPV (actually sort of unusual for his age, but possible), which means symptomatic treatment (meclizine) until it goes away. Meniere's is unlikely if this is his first episode and he doesn't have any tinnitus (I assume he would have mentioned that).

EDIT: And yeah, vertigo is miserable, or at least people look miserable when they have it (I've never been afflicted myself).

[LiveCoug]

I've had it twice. It absolutely sucked. Hang in there man, it'll pass.

My sister gets vertigo all the time and she gets very scared to go do certain activities, fearing that at any moment vertigo will happen. Not a fun way to live.

[CJF]

I woke up this morning for work with the room spinning around me. I was nauseous to the point I thought I was going to pass out. Similar to the feeling I get when reading in a moving car but 10x worse. Somehow I managed to get dressed, brushed my teeth and made it down stairs. I thought maybe I just sat up too quickly in bed. But then I started vomiting. I have thrown up about 6 times today. I have nothing left in me. I retired to the guest room in the basement where it was cool and dark. I am still very nauseous. The room feels like it's spinning clockwise around me. I have never felt like this before ever. Gidget thinks it may be a migraine or the onset of one. I have never had one so I don't know. I don't have a headache, just some pressure around my head particularly in the back by my brain stem. I have an appointment in an hour with the doctor. This sucks. I just don't want to move for fear of vomiting again.

Sounds to me like you started reading SU's posts too quickly this morning.

[creekster]

I get mild cases of vertigo from time to time. No idea why.

I once had a mild case that got much worse during the day. I had stupidly commuted to work on my bike that day assuming/hoping the vertigo would go away. Becasue ti got much worse, I had a very difficult time riding home. I kept wanting to veer to the left and when stopped at lights I would almost fall over. Very stupud on my part.

[wuapinmon]

I was sitting in a house in Limón, Costa Rica in early 1994 eating lunch. It was hot as hell, and we had no fan. The entire zone ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner together, so all 10 of us were eating and sweating. Suddenly, like a bomb went off in my head, the room started spinning really really badly, and I broke out in a cold sweat and felt like puking. I had never experienced anything like it, and the look on my face (I was too startled to say anything) was bad, because one of the other elders goes, "Dude, Williams, are you alright?"

It took me about 5 mins of closed eyes and prayer to make everything stop spinning. I was wasted for the rest of the day.

I hope you get better quickly. That was a horrible feeling, and I feel for you.

[Mrs. Funk]

Vertigo sucks. I had it when I was about 15 and the medicine my doctor father prescribed was effective but made me super drowsy. (My occasionally dingbat mother mistakenly administered my vertigo medicine to my little brother instead of his Ritalin for about a week. Nobody could figure out why he was exhausted all the time!).

It's strange how even laying down doesn't feel good or normal. Here's hoping the doc can help you out.

[UtahDan]

It took me about 5 mins of closed eyes and prayer to make everything stop spinning. I was wasted for the rest of the day.

Surfah this is the perfect opportunity to do an experiment. Try this formula but don't pray or get wasted afterwards.

[Surfah]

Just got back. Last week I was battling a chest cold that I treated with OTCs. I still have an upper respiratory infection and the doc thinks this is what messed up my inner ear and caused all of this. He prescribed some antibiotics for my chest cold and phenergan for the nausea and vomiting hoping that taking care of the former will fix the latter. I hope he's right. ERcoug he said he would have prescribed the meclizine if I didn't have the respiratory infection.